Canton, uly The proposed ban on ""mixed walking" is meeting with no support from either official quarters or the public, which condemn the suagestion as sheer nonsense. The South~ west Political Council is not expected to consider the petition.
But meanwhile the government is continuing its puritan campaign, the atest development being the arrest and fine by the police of a newly married couple for kissing in the street, which the authorities hold t9 "incompatible with old. virtues.
"The local press has directed scathing eritielsm on the advocates of the proposed restriction, declaring} that even arm-in-arm walking cannot be regarded as immoral, Ridiculing the proposal, one of the news papers declares that if the proposal adopted, the government might!
well forbid mixed riding in buses 1d trains, mixed attendance of incompatible theatres and schools. The paper scathingly remarks: "It the Government officials wish to preserve and improve the moral standard of the people, let them begin at the plea-Sure centres where immorality exists 'a hundred times more than on all streets combine 'Chinese public opinion in Canton in general is not' opposed to. the movement for the restoration of old virtues but proposals such as the one under discussion are held to be too absurd to receive serious atte lon. The press declares that Canton would become the laughing stock of the world if suen a suggestion jonid actually receive official consideration—Reuter.
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